US won’t play mediator: Rao
NEW DELHI: Ahead of US special envoy Richard Holbrooke’s talks with Indian officials Monday, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said US President Barack Obama has assured New Delhi that he has no desire to play a mediatory role in resolving the Kashmir issue.
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Holbrooke to Telluride, Personal Archivist’s Whereabouts Unknown
Richard Holbrooke was the man who would be king, with jurisdiction from India to Afghanistan, overseeing American diplomacy and foreign policy in a region that will make or break the Obama presidency. But almost from the beginning things didn’t go as planned. The Indians sent a clear message to Washington: Holbrooke was not welcome, and [...]
Clueless in Kabul
We’ve noted the Obama administration’s penchant for bullying America’s allies and kowtowing to its adversaries. This Washington Post story presents another case-in-point — our treatment of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. As Afghan presidents go, Karzai makes a good mayor of Kabul (in a bad year). Nonetheless, right now the U.S. needs [...]
Kristol: Reckless Rahm
“It would be reckless to make a decision on U.S. troop level if, in fact, you haven’t done a thorough analysis of whether, in fact, there’s an Afghan partner ready to fill that space that the U.S. troops would create and become a true partner in governing the Afghan country.” — White House Chief of [...]
Is Obama Forming a "Shadow Government?"
Today, President Barack H. Obama appointed yet another “czar”, making the announcement at an AFL-CIO Laborious Day picnic in Cincinnati today; Ron Bloom will make the 33rd Obamic Czar, counting Van Jones, who just resigned but will surely be replaced with a less explosive (but every bit as Marxist) appointee, and after Obama taps someone [...]
Ignore Idaho, end up in the Congo
John wrote here about Secretary of State Clinton’s angry moment in the Congo. Clinton lost her composure when asked (in a mistranslation of the question) about her husband’s view of a trade agreement between China and the Congo.
Most commentary on the incident has attributed Clinton’s anger to the fact that folks [...]
